Palynostratigraphy of upper Cambrian-upper Ordovician intracratonic clastic sequences, North Africa

Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana

Volumn 38, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 331-341

  Vecoli, Marco ^a,d   Benzarti, Rakia ^b   Tongiorgi, Marco ^e   Abdesselam Roughi, Farida Fatna ^c   Massa, Dominique ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SEREPT   (Tunisia)

^c SONATRACH   (Algeria)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Acritarchs; Biostratigraphy; Cambro Ordovician; North Africa

Indexed keywords

ACRITARCH; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; ORDOVICIAN; PALYNOLOGY;

ALGERIA; TUNISIA;

EID: 0342657726     PISSN: 03757633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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